Attitude Adjustment

I'm trying to have a better attitude about things.  For instance, my ward.  Colt and I haven't been too thrilled with our ward here, but maybe we can fix that by our attitudes.  There have been times when I have wanted to say not-so -nice things to people in my ward after they asked if I was new (when we've been here for a year), asked if I was pregnant (no, I'm not), or told me that I wasn't important to our relief society program so they could practice without me.  Instead, I've been trying to bite my tongue and just smile at them.

This same better attitude applies to our current living situation.  I had high hopes for moving away to Colorado or Washington and getting out of Southern Utah.  However, Colt and I both feel strongly that for now we are supposed to stay here, so I'm going to make the best of it.  Instead of being sad about things I'm missing out on, I'm going to try to remind myself of all of the wonderful things about Southern Utah.  This may not be my favorite place to live, but I'm going to make myself like it.

First step: curtains for the living room and kitchen that I have been putting off since I thought we were moving.

Things I Love

I have been a little down today, so in order to cheer myself up I thought I would think of some things I love.
I love:
-g-chatting with friends and family to get me through the day
-sewing. It's therapeutic.
-the fact that this is a 4 day week
-Dr. Pepper and almond joy pieces at work
-clean, jersey knit sheets on my bed
-my husband
-Chuck, NCIS, House, Parenthood, and all of my other favorite shows

What do you love right now?

Catching Up

I'm so excited because the virus on my work computer is finally gone, so I can blog again!

I can't believe it has been so long since I last blogged.  There is no way to catch up on what's been going on, so I guess I will just list some things to get caught up.

Here's what's going on in our neck of the woods:

-I got a job at Colt's office doing receptionist/secretary work. Not my ideal job (teaching), but it isn't too bad and it gets us a check every week.
-I finally got my teacher's license! It's kind of anti-climatic printing it out from a website, but at least I can be a real, live teacher now.
-Colt is still waiting to hear back from grad schools. It's a long wait, and it's driving me crazy to not know where we are going to be next year.
-I hurt my knee again.  This sounds bad, but really it's ok because it's giving me an excuse to go home. I have to go to a doctor in Colorado...darn!
-I have fallen in love with my sewing machine. I love to sew. I. Love. It.
-I finally got put on the list to substitute teach. Of course, this came right after getting my job...so now I have tough decisions to make. Money vs. my love for teaching. I don't know what to do.
-I love working in the office with Colt. I get to see him more, and we get to eat lunch together everyday!

I guess that's a basic update of our lives. Hopefully now that my computer is fixed I will be able to blog more often.

Edible Village

Colt and I have had kind of a rough week being stalked and all, so last night we decided to take it easy and do something fun.  We bought candy and spent all evening eating candy and making a gingerbread village.  I think my favorite was when Colt would talk about how some of the roofs weren't designed correctly for the snow. Here is one that Colt made:

and one that I made:

We made a whole village, complete with marshmallow snowman and coconut snow.

Thought our piping skills leave something to be desired, it was nice to have a fun night where we didn't have to worry about school or creepy people.

Christmas Dishes

Last year for Christmas, my mom gave me a beautiful set of Christmas dishes.  I have been waiting all year to use them, so Colt and I finally pulled them out when we made burritos earlier this week.  That was probably not the most festive meal choice, but I didn't care.  I just wanted to use them.

Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving, we went to Houston to be with most of Colt's family, and see the cute little twins that Colt's sister just had.  We had fun playing with our neice and nephews.

We we went downtown Houston on Thanksgiving and watched one of the coolest firework shows I have ever seen. I wish I had taken pictures.  Colt, Toni, and I went to the Space Center and got to see all kinds of cool things.  There was also a castle lego exhibit where Colt and I were king and queen of the lego castle.

There were also lego dragons and lego knights, so Toni and I were knights with pink shields.

It was a really fun trip, and we enjoyed being with family and finally getting to Texas to see Amy, Erik, and their family. 

Now Charles, That's How You Threaten Someone

This has been quite an interesting week for Colt and I.  Colt has been stressed with finals coming up and his last projects of the semester (and his undergrad degree) being due soon.  On top of that, we have had some creepers kind of stalking us...

Thursday morning Colt was away at work, and I was watching the news/dozing before starting my day.  I woke up to the doorbell ringing, but wasn't sure that it was actually the doorbell, so I ignored it.  The doorbell rang several more times after that.  I didn't answer...I thought it was creepy.  Later, we found a note at our door saying that the previous tenants of our townhouse had a package delivered to our house and to call them when we received it. Since Colt's sister is the manager of our townhouse, we asked her to deal with it.  I thought it was all behind me at this point.

I was wrong.  I got a call that night that these people were at our house pounding on the door.  They were also sending threatening/rude texts to my sister-in-law, and claiming that we were trying to keep their package.  (As if I really want their stupid package in the first place).  This went on well into the night, so I was a little scared to go home.  So scared that we spent the night at Colt's parents house.  I still can't think of anything so important that you need to pound down someone's door for it. 

The next morning we notified the police of the problem.  We gave her back her package, and informed her that if she contacted our family again a formal complaint would be filed with the police.  She was also informed not to have things sent to our house anymore. I thought that would have been obvious since they moved out 8 months ago.  Creepers.

Bonus points to anyone who knows where this title came from.